- From: Daniel Holbert <dholbert@mozilla.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 12:02:15 -0700
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- CC: Alex Mogilevsky <alexmog@microsoft.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
Yup -- apologies if my post sounded like "OMG Mozilla will have to change the code" -- that was not my intention. :) Boris conveyed my concern much more clearly & generally (thanks for that). ~Daniel On 06/27/2012 11:40 AM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > On 6/27/12 2:14 PM, Alex Mogilevsky wrote: >> But the kind of arguments you bring here are exactly the kind of >> arguments we should have when implementation affects design -- what >> can and cannot be done with a particular design. It is much healthier >> and more useful than knowing that some code somewhere has a problem... > > Well, sure. Daniel's problem was just that he's not an expert on the > exact details involved, so he simply didn't have the relevant > information. And he said that in his post... I'm sorry if you > perceived him as being handwavy on purpose here. > > I definitely agree that we should try to be specific about the > structural problems with an approach, if there are any, as opposed to > implementation difficulties in a particular implementation that don't > have a structural underpinning. > > -Boris >
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